daddyholes posted:roseweird im pretty sure the rise is measured in recent years because the only sensible data would come from the period of time when there was a diagnosis and a lot of people out there to give it. my opinion is that incidence isnt on the rise at all but people are only recently beginning to realize that social stigma is on a slow decline and diagnoses are the way to extort help from the state and employers, again, speaking as someone who used to do that for a living
daddyholes posted:roseweird im pretty sure the rise is measured in recent years because the only sensible data would come from the period of time when there was a diagnosis and a lot of people out there to give it. my opinion is that incidence isnt on the rise at all but people are only recently beginning to realize that social stigma is on a slow decline and diagnoses are the way to extort help from the state and employers, again, speaking as someone who used to do that for a living
do you think this goes for autism too?
i'm sceptical because i've been diagnosed with ADD but i can't for the life of me see how 'being bored by boring shit' or being restless is a 'Disorder' that deviates from some supposed normal human baseline.
roseweird posted:Ironicwarcriminal posted:
hello roseweird how are you
i could really use some weed
I hope you find some. Most of my smoking buddies have gone to Canada so i'm pretty dry too
Cali'd medicinal weed was pretty awesome when i was there but when i was on Kauai a couple of years ago the 65 year old war vet cabbie who took us around the island gave us a little bit of his personal stash ('for my war wounds') that his friend grew up in the canyons somewhere and oh my god it was the most unbelievable weed ever. One hit from a little hash pipe and i was gone for 2 hours i shit you not.
sorry for rambling, just got thinking about that weed......
Ironicwarcriminal posted:daddyholes posted:roseweird im pretty sure the rise is measured in recent years because the only sensible data would come from the period of time when there was a diagnosis and a lot of people out there to give it. my opinion is that incidence isnt on the rise at all but people are only recently beginning to realize that social stigma is on a slow decline and diagnoses are the way to extort help from the state and employers, again, speaking as someone who used to do that for a living
do you think this goes for autism too?
i'm sceptical because i've been diagnosed with ADD but i can't for the life of me see how 'being bored by boring shit' or being restless is a 'Disorder' that deviates from some supposed normal human baseline.
nah that's more because prior to about 1980 most doctors weren't even aware autism was a thing beyond bad parenting
daddyholes posted:i think it goes for autism too yes, in that case it's imo often parents attempting to extort attention for their kids from schools whether for academics or bullying or whatever. as in the other cases i think thats ok but its sad that people have to trick american institutions into providing assistance to people at greater cost to everyone
it's almost like the push to have a child be special or gifted has warped in a weird way to include the 'prestige' of having a disorder. We're not quite as intense on the psycho-drug stuff as America but all the same trends are present here.
On a side note i read something pretty funny today: the areas of my state with the lowest rate of vaccination correlate to the bottom 5% and top 5% of income earners.
peepaw posted:Ironicwarcriminal posted:
daddyholes posted:
roseweird im pretty sure the rise is measured in recent years because the only sensible data would come from the period of time when there was a diagnosis and a lot of people out there to give it. my opinion is that incidence isnt on the rise at all but people are only recently beginning to realize that social stigma is on a slow decline and diagnoses are the way to extort help from the state and employers, again, speaking as someone who used to do that for a living
do you think this goes for autism too?
i'm sceptical because i've been diagnosed with ADD but i can't for the life of me see how 'being bored by boring shit' or being restless is a 'Disorder' that deviates from some supposed normal human baseline.
nah that's more because prior to about 1980 most doctors weren't even aware autism was a thing beyond bad parenting
but where is the line drawn between Autism: the disorder and just an introverted, analytical personality type that has most likely existed throughout history. (Issac Newton springs to mind)
Ironicwarcriminal posted:which begs the bigger question of where all this depression/anxiety is coming from in the first place.
I believe it is a natural part of the human condition.
I also don't think we can just blame the internet as a whole for causing problems in our lives. Of course it can have negative effects but it can also have many positive ones, the trick is just learning to use it more effectively
roseweird posted:sorry tpaine i am my own crew i stand alone even if it means i fall alone that's just how i live online and off and i have to be tru to myself
do you want to be in a krew with me?
daddyholes posted:Newt gingrich
From how im reading this thread "Newt gingrich" is both happily teaching english in indonesia (instead of mongolia) and also dead from suicide from too much internet.
sory if i forgot any other aussies on the rhizzone
Ironicwarcriminal posted:cars posted:i would include twitter and facebook and blogs etc. and reading comments sections too but discipline you are also a writer so it makes sense to be on those things and your twitter is pretty good and also you arent suicidal are you?
i have lf/fyad people who have graduated to my facebook feed and while it's not as bad as wddp there's so much self-sabotage and misplaced anger and i wonder how much it's tied in with modern leftist ideology....so myopic and internalized
im not like that at all I just post hot pix of myself
EmanuelaOrlandi posted:yea you did: blinkandwheeze
roseweird posted:Ironicwarcriminal posted:
roseweird posted:
sorry tpaine i am my own crew i stand alone even if it means i fall alone that's just how i live online and off and i have to be tru to myself
do you want to be in a krew with me?
feel like youre kind of setting yourself up for rejection here
rejection is in the eye of the beholder